The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
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The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping.. 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.
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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
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The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain
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'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god.
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu's religion.
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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
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The Koran doesn't make a direct quote saying that pictures are not allowed, but idolatry in not, and if a picture was painted of the prophet, or made of the prophet, then this would be a form of idolatry.
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She spoke the most beautiful classical Arabic and no one understood her. I got fed up with her and the idolatry around her.
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Idolatry is like love, but less idealized. Its icon is still beautiful, but only charisma makes it attractive enough to be worshipped.
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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmengive themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity seesno difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.
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Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?
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Mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire.
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Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.
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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
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Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the cosmos is out of joint. Instead of humans being God's wise vice-regents over creation, they ignore the creator and try to worship something less demanding, something that will give them a short-term fix of power or pleasure.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.
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Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.
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